| Influences | Friends are a big influence, as they can affect the mood, which, in turn can affect our style of music. The same goes for the weather.
Artists of a musical nature that we (or any one of us) might occasionally class as "influences" could be (in no order of importance) Mogwai, Biffy Clyro, Explosions in the Sky, Jeff Buckley, Sigur Ros, Dredg, Tool, Squarepusher, Aphex Twin, Underworld, Radiohead, Led Zeppelin, The KLF, Boards of Canada, Jaga Jazzist, M83, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, A Silver Mount Zion, Autechre, Beethoven, Calyx, James Zabiela, John Digweed, Muse, Manic Street Preachers, Adem, 65 Days of Static, Chris Clark, DJ Yoda, Rage Against the Machine, Queens of the Stone Age, Deftones, Placebo, freeform jazz, Sikth, System of a Down, Four Tet, Klute, Incubus, Jimi Hendrix, Foo Fighters, A Perfect Circle, The Mars Volta, Orbital, Sunn O))), Meshuggah, Idlewild, Klaxons, Portishead, Skunk Anansie, Erol Alkan, The Marx Brothers, Gene Kelly, Smashing Pumpkins, Refused, Glassjaw, Nina Simone, Drumcorps, John Lennon, Luna C, Tom Waits, Do Make Say Think, Dragonforce, Huey Lewis and The News, gabba...
The point here being that anything can influence a person, from a mobile phone's message tone to a cute but bitchy Disney character to plain idiomatic speech.
We influence each other more than anything though. We listen to alot of different styles, which creates an influential foundation to allow us to influence each other. How pretentious.
Also, Sean likes Iron Maiden and Metallica. |
